School of Rome, 19th century.

School of Rome, 19th century.
"The card players".
Oil on canvas.
It presents craquelados.
Measurements: 22 x 27 cm; 34 x 39 cm (frame).

Scene of interior of tavern representing with tenebrist lights a game of cards. There are only two players, watched by a spectator who turns his back to us, and yet three people are enough to create a tense and concentrated atmosphere. An amber lighting, as of quinqués (although they are not in sight) endow of closed warmth to the place. The character we see against the light, his silhouette cut out, is wrapped in a halo of mystery. The painter picks up a usual theme within the tradition of the popular genre of tavern paintings, which was initated in the Flemish and Dutch school during the Baroque period.